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Comparative venom gland transcriptome analysis of the scorpion Lychas mucronatus reveals intraspecific toxic gene diversity and new venomous components.
BMC genomics - 28 Jul 2010
Ruiming Zhao, Yibao Ma, Yawen He, Zhiyong Di, Yingliang Wu, Zhijian Cao, Wenxin Li
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Lychas mucronatus is one scorpion species widely distributed in Southeast Asia and southern China. Anything is hardly known about its venom components, despite the fact that it can often cause human accidents. In this work, we performed a venomous gland transcriptome analysis by constructing and screening the venom gland cDNA library of the scorpion Lychas mucronatus from Yunnan province and compared...
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